Improvement in pickle-assorters



. 2 Shgets-Sheet 2 J. H. HEINZ. Pickle-Assorter'.

No. 197,934. Patented Dec. 11,1877

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JOHN HEINZ, on sHARPsBUHc, PENNSYLVANIA.

IM PROVEIVI ENT vIN PlCKLE-ASSORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,934, dated December 11, 1877; application led August 31, 1877.

. drawings, andto theletters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in apparatusfor assorting pickles; and consists in a pivoted hopper, combined with a cylindrical screen or separator of two or more sections, constructed of a series' of bars, the outer and inner walls of which converge longitudinally toward the axis of the cylinder, and the side walls of whichare beveled, and on lines radiating from said axis, the Whole being so arranged that pickles of different diameters are separated from each other, and deposited in separate receptacles through the medium of chutes combined with said separating-cylinders.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

. In the accompanying drawings, which form part of my specification, Figure l is a top view or plan of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a vertical and longitudinal section. Fig. 4is avertical and transverse section.

In the drawings, A is the frame; B, the cylinder, which is mounted upon an axis, C, provided with driving-gear e e and a cam-wheel, f, agitating the pivoted hopper g. On the under side of the hopper g is a projection, h, used in connection with the cam-Wheel ffor giving the desired agitation to the hopper g.

The pickles are placed in the hopper g, the agitation of which gradually discharges them into the interior of the rst section of the separating-cylinder, where the pickles of the smaller diameter are discharged between the bars i of the iirst section of the cylinder, and those of a larger diameter travel into the second section of the cylinder, where all of a given diameter pass through the bars oil said section, and those of too great a diameter to pass through the bars are discharged out of the end of the cylinder into the chute lr.

lis the chute for the first section of the cylinder, and m the chute forthe second section of the cylinder. Each chute should be provided with a separate receptacle for receiving the separated pickles.

I have described the cylinder as consisting of two separating-sections; but -any desired number oi sections may be employed without departin g from the principle-0I' my invention.

hopper g, and chutes lm, arranged and oper-v ating with relation to each other, substantially as set forth.

JOHN H. HEINZ.

I Witnesses:

.A. C. JOHNSTON,

JAMES J. JOHNSTON. 

